Thread: First real slice on the cheek!

I am about 4 days healed after my first slice and dice on my cheak of all places. Note to all newbies with small children...well two notes actually. (The obvious) Make sure your straight razors are put away safe, but the more important...If you have a children that are under the age of about 3 or 4 years old and are facinated by you shaving...Wait till they are in bed or away from the area. A simple little shrilly "What doing Daddy" from a 2 year old can totally get you out of your chi enough that even a simple WTG pass on the cheek can almost be a trip to the ER.

Just a little personal advice from one newbie parent to any others.I know cry me a river. Tears are easier to stop than a 1/2 inch slice.

Had a similar experience. Except I was ten and wanted to shave like grandpa and cut a half inch gash in my cheek with his DE. People think I have a dimple. Makes me laugh now. Standing on the sink dry shaving.

Hello, Bubba4422,

I have a grandson who has just begun to crawl. Lord help us. The young hooligan moves with the stealth of a commando. One minute he is there and the next at your feet, staring up at you. I can see trouble coming.

I have begun plans to move my razors onto higher plateau, like the highest dresser I can find in the house.

Regards,

Obie

Dogs coming into to nudge their affection can interrupt your stroke as well as children...I close the door now~

I know that I have this to look forward to. My pregnant wife came into the bathroom a while back and started asking why "This shaving hobby" takes so long and that I won't have this kind of time to spend on this "When the baby comes..." right as she left I sliced my lip. Just enough distraction to get you out of your routine might just give you a weeper.

I've got a 4 and a 6 year old and i know what you mean about them being a little distracting at time, but have learned to tune everything out that is happening outside the bathroom, i lock the door always have. The moment i got a str8 my mother informed me of why my uncle had stopped shaving with a str8, he was shaving and she had opened the door and hit him in the arm none the less deep deep cut in the cheek which required a trip to the e.r. to close up. any way not just kids you need to worry about. that being said, that's one reason i love saving with a str8. lock the bathroom door shower and shave in peace and quite, the wife and kids both know to leave me alone when in there shaving, i get some much "me time" which i think any man does not get enough of!

I had this same experience last Saturday, and it's good to hear I'm not alone. My 15-year-old wanted to learn how to use a straight (hurray!), so I waited until later in the morning to shave so I could show him. Usually when I shave, it's pretty early, and no one is up. Well, my two daughters (7 and 8) came in and started asking all kinds of questions and making a general ruckus, and before I knew it, I had taken a good sized gouge out of my throat. Bled like a stuck pig.

Of course, that just made them noisier. "MOM! Dad cut himself REALLY BAD!" Just what I needed to reassure my wife that this hobby isn't insane.

The funny thing was I had just gotten through reassuring my son that you couldn't cut yourself to death using one of these things...

Fred

How about a cat jumping into the sink.

Pelkey